Eyes on the media

It’s hard to think of a more interesting time to be writing about Fairfax (publisher of The Australian Financial Review), what with
Gina Rinehart
hoovering up shares and structural change sweeping through the newspaper industry.

The only question is, when will the action stop. For former Financial Review editor Colleen Ryan, the answer is hopefully towards the end of the year.

Ryan, who co-authored Corporate Cannibals, is writing a book on the battle for Fairfax, to be published by Melbourne University Press in early 2013.

Ryan, who remains a senior contributor to the AFR, is not the only prospective author with media on the mind.

There is speculation investigative reporter
Paul Barry
is working on another tome on
Lachlan Murdoch
. Barry wrote Rich Kids: Murdoch, Packer And One.Tel, among others.